Homeschooling with Classical Conversations

People are baffled when they learn that there is actually a company devoted to helping families home educate. Why, yes! Classical Conversations offers everything you need to homeschool with success! I can say this with full certainty as I have graduated two students through the programs. 

This summer, I had the blessed opportunity to travel through Central Texas and speak to families about the fundamentals of Classical Conversations. 

My serious face as I discuss diagramming

Because I spent so much time on preparing for this presentation, I decided to share these thoughts here in a post for safekeeping in hopes that it would benefit others. 

FUNDAMENTALS of CC

CHRISTIAN

"To know God and to make him known." This is the greatest mission of Classical Conversations.  God is the unifying principle of all we do. It starts with the leadership, our CEO prays for lost and corporate leads with biblical values. The business practices reflect virtue and our relational principles are founded in scripture. I've seen people healed, hearts mended, and Christ modeled. I've also seen an outpouring of love and service, along with gifts being edified to build up the body. Most of all, I have seen a contention for Truth with a capital t. 

CLASSICAL

Classical education is a method that uses tools like the trivium to help us learn in layers. This is a natural, restful, and doable way to educate. Not only that, the curriculum offers such richness and depth. Our students have so many opportunities to sharpen their leadership skills before graduation. It's truly a gift. See our curriculum layout here in our catalog.

Truth is required to inculcate wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.  Wrestling with Truth promotes blessing and virtue for the whole community.  So, virtue and truth is an integral part of classical educational pursuits.

Classical education celebrates the integration of all knowledge. We find God in our science studies while we play with math in music, or explore language in literature. We see art in history, and writing in debating, None of these subjects are mutually exclusive of eachother and its mesmerizing. Our students walk away with a holistic view on all subject matter.

COMMUNITY

I bet that if you put in your zip code here, you will find a nearby Classical Conversations community. I recently administrated the booth at a convention in Austin. I was blown away by all the CC families from all over the nation who visited our booth. I would walk the halls of the vendors and see that there was one thing that made us stand out from the rest--- we offer local community! There are testimonies after testimonies of doing school with a CC community. We are also international! I was just talking with a counterpart in Australia, leading a program for Classical Conversations.